[sphinx]

Studies are rolling in that hospitals need to be cleaner... Hospitals do an inadequate job of cleaning rooms....

At last -- something useful for the tort lawyers to do. Provided, of course, that they can handle the necessary retraining.

[Venturer]

I went in to have my Gall Bladder removed. They had me in the reception center and had me remove my clothes and put on one of those open butted gowns they hand out. They brought a wheel chair for me to sit in to be taken upstairs and a blanket.

I placed the blanket on the wheelchair seat and sat on it. The nurse said the blanket was for me to put over me, an I told her, I worked on an ambulance for a while, I brought in many people and I knew how often they wiped out and cleaned those wheelchair seats,and I didnt want my bare ass on it. She went and got me another blanket.

Remember many years ago when you went to a hospital and smelled disinfectant? Don't smell it now do you?
It's almost as bad as it was during the Civil War when they discovered cleanliness led to less deaths.